I live in Iowa now, but I lived in Oak Harbor and Coupeville, on Whidbey Island, for 10 years (1983-1992) while in the Navy. Washington is where I first caught the vintage bike bug and when I bought my first basket case, a 1970 BSA Lightning. This was before ebay and I sold it to a guy in LA through the trader magazines. 300 plus "project bikes" later, I bought a basket case RE, which turned out to have a bad sprag starter clutch. Ive always admired them and I finally got one! My wife and I rode my 79 Triumph (that I bought at Dewey Cycle) to the Isle of Vashon ride a couple times and we used to have a great time at Teddys for the VME meets and trackng down old bikes in the Seattle area. We hope to return when we retire because we really miss the NW.

I have offered to volunteer my store as a starting point for a group ride. If you guys want some thing more organized you could use the store as a sort of head quarters . You could meet here (I will spring for donuts!) . or use it as a mail drop for some thing that may not lend itself to email. I'm open for suggestions.

Anyone ever thought about a Wash State RE association ? just a thought...never mind the dork....Gerry

Gerry, you know what's dorky, stupid looking patches and dumb acronyms! If something was started without those two things in mind I could probably get on board. I think you would have to have North & South chapters where each chapter meets separately and then so many times a year the two can get together for meetings, rides or other functions. It's amazing to me how many Bullet owners are in Washington on this forum. A bike club seems very feasible.

Anyone ever thought about a Wash State RE association ? just a thought...never mind the dork....Gerry

Gerry, you know what's dorky, stupid looking patches and dumb acronyms! If something was started without those two things in mind I could probably get on board. I think you would have to have North & South chapters where each chapter meets separately and then so many times a year the two can get together for meetings, rides or other functions. It's amazing to me how many Bullet owners are in Washington on this forum. A bike club seems very feasible.

Blltrdr.

Kind of what I was thinking minus the "chapter" thing. more like group/gaggle/bunchNot real restrictive or overly organized. Getting"serious" about something usually takes most of the fun out of that thing. Instead of a chapter president you could have a local "instigator" information host. If someone wants an identifier/logo I would think a simple R.E. patch,logo shirt,ball cap, sticker on the rear window or tail gate would suffice. A dealership decal could serve to Identify the riders home "range".Stands to reason If we were attention whores we would all ride exotic$ and over the top cu$tom V8 choppers and such.

Group rides would be fantastic especially if bullet fans who have yet to purchase one were welcomed to come along.

Just some random thoughts,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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I can break it better,,,,at night, in the rain, on the trail,, 20 miles from nowhere.

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"TIMEX", the '06 Iron Barrel Military that takes me everywhere I want to go... and some places I shouldn't.